Freestyle Christianity

Matt Baker and Preston Price talks to An Yountae about his book The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins, published in 2016 by Fordham University Press: The central question Yountae raises is, how do we mediate the mystical abyss of theology and the abyss of socio-political trauma engulfing the colonial subject? What would theopoetics look like in the context where poetics is the means of resistance and survival? This book seeks to answer these questions by examining the abyss as the dialectical process in which the self’s dispossession before the encounter with its own finitude is followed by the rediscovery or reconstruction of the self. In the upcoming episode, Yountae raises a common critique aimed at Deleuze and Guattari, namely that their abstract level of thinking allows for them to be exploited by virtually anyone, and he is then quoted from The Decolonial Abyss: The question that arises is, should not the call for accountability and mourning for the loss and suffering of othe